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    How To Draw Blood From a Goat: How To Collect and Send Specimens to Test for Pregnancy, Johnes, CAE, CL, and More
    How To Draw Blood From a Goat: How To Collect and Send Specimens to Test for Pregnancy, Johnes, CAE, CL, and More
    How To Draw Blood From a Goat: How To Collect and Send Specimens to Test for Pregnancy, Johnes, CAE, CL, and More
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    How To Draw Blood From a Goat: How To Collect and Send Specimens to Test for Pregnancy, Johnes, CAE, CL, and More

    By Leigh Tate

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    If you keep a few goats as pets or for milk, meat, or brush control, you likely don't give much thought to potential disease in your herd. If you are interested in breeding and selling or showing goats, however, you are likely concerned about your herd being free of specific goat diseases, particularly the ones that are highly contagious and for which there are no known cures. Blood tests can detect the possible presence of disease in your goats.

    You might also want to confirm a pregnancy, or test for genetic disorders. How To Draw Blood from a Goat will take you through the process: types of tests, options for testing, costs, what you'll need, where to get supplies, how to prepare, how to do the draw, how to safely dispose of used supplies, how to package your samples, what the results mean, and a list of tests, labs, and resources.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLeigh Tate
    Release dateOct 17, 2016
    ISBN9781370765232
    How To Draw Blood From a Goat: How To Collect and Send Specimens to Test for Pregnancy, Johnes, CAE, CL, and More
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    Leigh Tate

    Leigh Tate has always loved living close to the land. From the back-to-the-land movement to the modern homesteading movement, the agrarian lifestyle is the one she says feels like home. She and her husband currently homestead five acres in the foothills of the Southern Appalachians. Their vision is to become as self-sustaining as possible by stewarding their land, animals, and resources. Leigh's homesteading activities include gardening, food preservation, foraging, raising goats, chickens, and guinea fowl, herbs, cheese making, permaculture landscaping, spinning, weaving, knitting, sewing, quilting, natural dying, soapmaking, wood cookstove cookery, and renovating their old 1920s farmhouse.

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      How To Draw Blood From a Goat - Leigh Tate

      The Little Series of Homestead How-Tos

      from 5 Acres & A Dream

      How To Draw Blood From a Goat

      How to collect and send specimens to test for pregnancy, Johnes, CAE, CL, and more

      by Leigh Tate

      Kikobian Books

      www.kikobian.com

      Text & photos copyright © 2016 by Leigh Tate.

      All rights reserved. This eBook is licensed for your personal use only. It may not be re-sold or given away. Purchaser is granted permission to make one print copy for their personal preparedness files. Otherwise, except for brief quotations in reviews, no portion of this book may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form without the written permission of the author. For more information, contact Kikobian Books at info@kikobian.com.

      Originally published: October 17, 2016

      Revised: April 17, 2021

      Contents

      Preface

      Why Test Your Goats?

      What Tests Are Available?

      What Are the Options for Testing?

      When Should I Test?

      How Much Does It Cost?

      What Will I Need?

      How To Prepare

      How To Draw the Blood

      How To Safely Dispose of Used Needles

      How To Package Your Samples for Sending to the Laboratory

      Where To Send Your Samples for Testing

      What Do the Results Mean?

      How Often Should I Test?

      Resources

      Glossary

      Bibliography

      About the Author

      Preface

      When I published 5 Acres & A Dream The Book: The Challenges of Establishing a Self-Sufficient Homestead, I described it as neither a how-to nor a why-to book. Although it contains quite a bit of practical advice about many homesteading skills, it is mostly the story of our journey toward simpler, sustainable, more self-reliant living. The Little Series of Homestead How-Tos is a complement to that book. It is a work in progress which will eventually include

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